Strong statement from the CTA to deny that the referee recognized the red for Rodrygo

Published:30/01/2024 - 00:51h

Updated:30/01/2024 - 00:51h

The video shared this Monday by 'DAZN' in which César Soto Grado admits to having forgiven Rodrygo Goes' red card during the Las Palmas-Real Madrid match did not take long to find a response from the Technical Arbitration Committee (CTA) to deny what happened

The Referee's Technical Committee (CTA) denied the version shared by 'DAZN' where, through a video recorded in the halftime of the party between the UD The Palms and the Real Madrid (1-2), César Soto Degree admits to have forgiven the expulsion to Rodrygo Goes by a manotazo to the goalkeeper Álvaro Fence in when hardly it began the party. In accordance with the CTA, the audio of the video was descontextualizado to load against the referee riojeño.

IMAGE #Super8 🔊 "Very clear, is red"

The conversation of Soto Degree with the players of the Real Madrid on the action of Rodrygo with Álvaro Fence in #Super8 pic.twitter.com/ugu7byrwdf
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_IS) January 29, 2024

In the talk during the halftime, Nacho says him to the main judge: "At all, it is saying (Rodrygo) that take him out card by the push and to the goalkeeper also" and Soto Degree answers him with rotundity: "Very clear, is red", in front of which the captain of the Madrid answers surprised: "How it goes to be red? But how it goes to be red?", it comments him the defence.

In this regard, the CTA answered with a communiqué where "denies tajantemente that the referee César Soto Degree affirmed, to the rest of the party between the Sportive Union The Palms and the Real Madrid of the past Saturday, that a player of the white group had to be expelled, as it attributes him the television operator DAZN. What says César Soto Degree, in front of the assessment of a player of the Real Madrid, is: "If it was the other way around, you would say that it is red very clear".

The request of the CTA to the players of the Madrid wrapped in the controversy

In this sense, the communiqué of the CTA exhorts to the players of the Real Madrid and the UD The Palms involved in the talk spread by 'DAZN' (Nacho, Dani Carvajal and the own Rodrygo Goes in the case of the Madrid) to add to the official version to clear doubts on the presumptive referee's favour of Soto Degree to the 'White House'.

"We invite to the players of both present clubs in the conversation to confirm, in honour to the truth, the correct version. The CTA regrets a new manoeuvre with the only end to put to the estamento referee's in the target and goes back to emplazar to an exercise of reflection to all the active parts of the football", puntualiza the communiqué.